Rhymney railway station
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Rhymney railway station serves the town of Rhymney in Wales. Situated on the Valley Lines network Template:Convert north of Cardiff Central, it is the terminus of the Rhymney Line. The station has sidings to the west of its single platform which are used for the overnight stabling of the diesel multiple unit trains.
History
The railway south from here was opened by the Rhymney Railway in 1858 as far as Hengoed and Walnut Tree Junction (giving access to Template:Stnlnk via the Taff Vale Railway by 1864), with a link northwards to Rhymney Bridge (on the Merthyr to Abergavenny 'Heads of the Valley' line) following in 1871. This was operated jointly with the London and North Western Railway. In the same year the current route through Template:Stnlnk was opened by the Rhymney company, removing the need for its trains to use TVR metals to reach Cardiff. Services to the north ended in 1953 with the closure of the joint line to Rhymney Bridge to passenger traffic (with complete closure following in November 1954). The section down to Template:Stnlnk was also subsequently singled and the station reduced in size, with the decommissioning of the old island platform. This remained intact but disused for many years, but was demolished in 2007 when the stabling sidings were relaid and re-aligned.
Services
The Monday to Saturday daytime service pattern is two trains an hour to Template:Stnlnk: one continues to Template:Stnlnk and one to Template:Stnlnk. The Template:Stnlnk service skips intermediate stops between Rhymney and Template:Stnlnk.
On Sundays, the service pattern is one train an hour southbound to Template:Stnlnk and Template:Stnlnk.[1]
| Preceding station | National Rail National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminus | style="background:#Template:KAW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Transport for Wales Rhymney Line |
style="background:#Template:KAW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Pontlottyn or Bargoed |
| Disused railways | ||||
| Template:Rws Line and station closed |
style="background:#Template:LNWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | London and North Western Railway and Rhymney Railway Nantybwch and Rhymney Joint Line |
style="background:#Template:LNWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Template:Rws Line and station open NotesExternal links
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